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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Mini-Campaigns Re-born

Back in early February I issued a "Mini-Campaign Challenge" for short campaigns using Charles Grant's various Campaign Scenarios. Today another mini-campaign has been added . . . so I am reprising the list so that all of us can re-visit them and give them a try.

Below are links (in the blog name) to responses so far to my call for "Mini-Campaigns" based on linking scenarios from Charles Grant's "Scenarios for Wargames".

What
I think strikes me most about them is how different their choices and
paths are . . . they should provide much fun for those who play them.

I would ask that if you play them, please post feedback on the creator's blogs . . . again, the URL links are in parentheses below.

After
the initial scenario, those following are not in order since most
chose the "tree" format where the result of the scenario affected which
scenario was played next . . . so don't look at them as being in
sequence . . . in fact, depending upon the results of various scenarios,
not all will be played in any one campaign.

Note -- I will continue to endeavor to add future "mini-campaigns" to this post as they arrive.

Ross Macfarlane (Battle Game of the Month) set his "Comox Valley Campaign" in a Colonial (or Ancients) setting . . . but it could be played as Horse & Musket too:

initial scenario -- #30 Ambush (1)

other scenario -- #4 Holding Action (2)

other scenario -- #13 Last Stand

other scenario -- #3 Holding Action (1)

other scenario -- #34 Swampland Action

other scenario -- #32 Wagon Train

other scenario -- #33 Convoy Action (2) -- Evacuation

other scenario -- #42 Advance Column

Jim Pitts (Col Campbell's Barraks)
has posted his "Linked Mini-Campaign" on his blog. Like most it has a
flexible order, so don't take these scenarios as being in order.

initial scenario -- #41 Chance Encounter

other scenario -- #3 Holding Action (1)

other scenario -- #4 Holding Action (2)

other scenario -- #1 Positional Defense (1)

other scenario -- #2 Positional Defense (2)

other scenario -- #5 Rear Guard (1)

other scenario -- #6 Rear Guard (2)

Conrad Kinch (Joy and Forgetfulness) has posted
his 1804 mini-campaign based on a British force in France trying to
fight its way to safety with yet a different starting scenario.

initial scenario -- #42 Advance Column

other scenario -- #50 Horse and Foot

other scenario -- #8 Dead Ground

final scenario -- #6 Rear Guard (2)

Ed Youngstrom (Landgraviate of Hesse-Fedora) started his "Ladder" campaign using the "Table Top Teaser" from Battlegames Magazine, then used Grant's "Scenarios for All Ages" to complete his "ladder".

initial scenario -- (Mag) Pontoon

other scenario -- (Ages) Rearguard

other scenario -- (Ages) Assault on Prepared Position

other scenario -- (Ages) Hot Pursuit

other scenario -- (Ages) Chance Encounter

other scenario -- (Ages) Making the Best of a Bad Job

Dr. Vesuvius (The Axis of Naughtiness) used Grant's "Programmed Wargames Scenarios" for his "Continuing Diplomacy" mini-campaign for solo play!

initial scenario -- (PWS) #11 Crossroads

other scenario -- (PWS) #18 A Hasty Blocking Position

other scenario -- (PWS) #5 The Weak Flank

other scenario -- (PWS) #1 Hill Line Defense

other scenario -- (PWS) #7 Two Sides of a River

other scenario -- (PWS) #6 Crossing Point

other scenario -- (PWS) #8 Fighting Through

other scenario -- (PWS) #9 Island Stand

Ross Macfarlane (Battle Game of the Month) has also posted a Horse & Musket mini-campaign for solo gamers using Grant's "Programmed Wargames Scenarios".
Interestingly enough it also starts with the same scenario as Dr.
Vesuvius' mini-campaign above . . . although it then proceeds
differently.

initial scenario -- (PWS) #11 Crossroads

possible scenario -- (PWS) #1 Hill Line Defense

possible scenario -- (PWS) #2 Broken Ground

possible scenario -- (PWS) #3 Pass Clearance

possible scenario -- (PWS) #5 The Weak Flank

possible scenario -- (PWS) #6 Crossing Point

possible scenario -- (PWS) #7 Two Sides of a River

possible scenario -- (PWS) #8 Fighting Through

possible scenario -- (PWS) #9 Island Stand

final scenario -- (PWS) #4 Holding Action

Conrad Kinch (Joy and Forgetfulness)
has also crated a "Table Top Teaser" mini-campaign using Charles S.
Grant's original "teasers" as published in magazines back in the late
1970's. Fortunately Steve-the-Wargamer has (with permission) posted these online so that anyone can use them without needing Grant's later Scenario books.

initial scenario -- (TTT) #3 The Advance Guard Action

second scenario -- (TTT) #5 The Dawn Attack

third scenario -- (TTT) #10 Rear Guard

possible scenario -- (TTT) #4 Hold Up in the Badlands

possible scenario -- (TTT) #8 The Hasty Defense and Relief of a TownAdditionally Cesar Alfredo Paz has created another "Mini-Campaign" using "Table Top Teasers" which is available here.